The American Joint Committee on Cancer's Cancer Staging Handbook is used by physicians throughout the world to diagnose cancer and determine the extent to which cancer has progressed. All of the TNM staging information included in this Sixth Edition is uniform between the AJCC (American Joint Committee on Cancer) and the UICC (International Union Against Cancer). Organised by disease site into 48 comprehensive chapters, this new edition has completely revised and updated the old classification system to provide a new, evidence-based guide to cancer staging. This new TNM Classification will be implemented world-wide on January 1st, 2003.
In this edition, evidence-based TNM staging is supplemented, as appropriate, by selected molecular markers and newly acquired insights into the molecular underpinnings of cancer.
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Significantly expanded, expertly and beautifully illustrated, The AJCC Cancer Staging Atlas, 2nd Edition, offers more than 600 illustrations created exclusively for this new edition and is fully updated to reflect the concepts discussed in ...
User-friendly enhancements include: • a revised and expanded presentation of the principles and rules of TNM staging • a concise summary of changes in the TNM classification and "Staging at a Glance" opening each chapter to provide a ...
All of the TNM staging information included in this Sixth Edition is uniform between the AJCC (American Joint Committee on Cancer) and the UICC (International Union Against Cancer).
International system of staging cancer that facilitates appropriate decisions regarding treatment and, evaluation of end results and comparability data.
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The text then rapidly reviews metastatic spread patterns and their incidence. For this edition, CT or MRI images have been added to all site-specific chapters to further detail cancer spread and help plan treatment.
In the model of the popular AJCC Staging manual and AJCC Staging handbook with the EZTNM module, this new product combines the AJCC Staging Atlas with a CD containing all the illustrations from the Atlas.